San Francisco Zen Center Meditation Session with Shindo Gita Gayatri

Learn how to meditate with Gita Gayatri from the San Francisco Zen Center. This virtual session for beginners will introduce you to the benefits of meditation, which can help settle the body and mind amid the swirl of daily life. Sitting in a balanced posture creates a steady calm that, with training, can become the way you meet whatever arises. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and find a good place to sit, or lie down, during the session.

Shindo Gita Gayatri is a priest at San Francisco Zen Center. She began practice in India with her spiritual master, guide, and mentor Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati of Narayana Gurukula, Fernhill, Ooty. In 1999, when her guru attained samadhi, she wandered extensively in the Himalayas and then continued to travel for six years. Her wanderings brought her to San Francisco Zen Center. She started formal practice in 2005 at Tassajara and was ordained as a priest by Ryushin Paul Haller Roshi in 2009. She presently lives and works at Green Dragon Temple / Green Gulch Farm, studying Buddhist psychology with Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi. http://www.asianart.org